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Re: New FTC Platform
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Originally Posted by wilsonmw04
watching the demo. One thing popped into my head: cool robots, funky game. I really hope this is just a demo and not the direction the games are going to be heading. It's not very game like is it?
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I have a hunch that the "FIRST Response" game/challenge was chosen for several reasons; one of which was that in a disaster situation, robots and the people controlling them can be expected to cooperate, not compete.
Cooperating robots don't intentionally collide with one another (the game rules included a penalty for interfering with another bot). Robots that don't collide with each other don't convert each other into piles of LEGO rebble.
Also, with their obvious resemblance to LynxMotion parts, many of the structural metal parts in the kit FIRST gave thier "Showcase" participants seem better suited to building walking/crawling and manipulating machines, instead of the typical FTC, go-karts of recent seasons.
Based on the above, I do expect the nature of the FTC games to change in the direction of becoming more like FLL challenges rather than staying the same as in past seasons, or becoming more like FRC challenges.
Blake
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